Best Non-Straw Hat Characters In One Piece

Eiichiro Oda’sOne Piecefollows the story of Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates crew as they sail across the Grand Line to find the grand treasure, known as the One Piece. While the Straw Hats are the crux of the story, theOne Pieceworld is way too massive to not haveany other incredible characters. RELATED:One Piece: Straw Hats Who Deserve A Higher Bounty In fact, countless characters that aren’t members of the Straw Hat Crew have left quite an impression on fans over the years and some have gone on to attain legendary status, becoming fan-favorites all on their own....

July 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1129 words · Alexander Smith

Best Space Strategy Games, Ranked

Summary Space strategy games come in many different flavors. From classic 4X orgrand strategyempire-building games to live-action real-time strategy games. A few even mix these two gameplay styles into a single package. There are both single-player and multiplayer offerings, and most good space strategy games have at least a few DLCs available to make them more interesting. There have been a number of definitive games in the spacestrategy genre. Some of which are parts of a franchise with 20 or more years of history and lore behind them....

July 3, 2025 · 12 min · 2385 words · Thomas Turner

Destiny 2: Best Season Of The Haunted Weapons, Ranked

Summary Season 17 ofDestiny 2brought players back to the Moon and focused on Calus and his ship, the Leviathan. In true Cabal opulence fashion, the Season of the Haunted also brought in some fitting weapons for players to farm during Nightmare Containment and Sever missions. On top of the new weapons, a few returning pieces made their entrance, too. Here’s which Season of the Haunted weapons are the best inDestiny 2....

July 3, 2025 · 5 min · 1009 words · Kelly Williams

Destiny 2: Bungie Reveals Every Item Leaving the Game at Beyond Light Launch

As both Bungie and theDestiny 2gaming community prepare for theBeyond Lightexpansion to release in November, Bungie will be retiring some items into the DCV, or Destiny Content Vault. Players don’t need to say goodbye to these items completely, as theDCV is a for temporary content cycling, but this will be the last players see of certain items for a while, and even if they return their release will probably be limited....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Elizabeth Moreno DDS

Destiny 2: King's Fall Weapons God Rolls

Quick Links Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder sees the return of the King’s Fall Raid fromDestiny, the iconic piece of endgame content that accompanied the acclaimed The Taken King expansion back then. TheDestiny 2version of King’s Fallbrought some changes along, and it does include several guns from the original Raid, albeit with a completely renewed pool perk to better suit the game’s current meta. All King’s Fall weapons also gained an all-new Origin Trait that’s exclusive to them, and it applies both to the guns from the Normal version of the Raid and those from the Master version....

July 3, 2025 · 5 min · 945 words · Valerie Schultz

Disintegration Developer V1 Interactive is Shutting Down

V1 Interactive,the team behind multiplayer shooterDisintegration,announced today that it will be officially closing its doors. In a Twitter post revealing the news, V1 thanks all current and past team members for their help building the studio, as well as the passionate community that formed aroundDisintegrationfollowingits release. The studio was originally created back in 2014, withHaloco-creator Marcus Lehto andSOCOMdeveloperMike Gutmann at the helm. The pair quickly partnered with publisher Private Division, getting to work on its first project....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Felicia Burns

Elden Ring's Hug From Fia is the Game's Worst Betrayal

Souls games are notoriously hard, and while some veterans have saidElden Ringis more approachable because of its open design, that doesn’t make it the case for everyone. Facing terrible foe after terrible foe can be quite demoralizing for those who are not too used to death inElden Ringout of the gate. So, when players get toRoundtable Hold pretty early inElden Ringand find a woman named Fia who is handing out hugs, it seems like a good choice....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 469 words · Aaron Morris

Fan-made Resident Evil 4 HD Project Now Available

Of all the games within the franchise,Resident Evil 4is probably the one that fans will often reminisce about, which switched things up and caused it to move in a new direction in the early 2000s. WhileResident Evilin general is an influential horror series, it’s the fourth game that frequently tops the list of people’s favorites. For that reason, a number of modders have been hard at work for the last eight years bringing graphical tweaks and some up-to-date features to this beloved 17-year-old classic....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Mrs. Kathleen Oconnell DVM

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Being a Three-Part Project is Just Right

It wasn’t too long ago thatFinal Fantasy 7 Remakelaunched. Initially a PS4 exclusive, this title adapted the Midgar portion of the originalFinal Fantasy 7into an expanded HD format. With new visuals, new action mechanics, and even an altered script, the game became a wild success. The changes made inFinal Fantasy 7 Remakehave proven to be divisive, but many are still excited to see where theFF7 Remakegames are headed. The only question on fans' minds for a couple of years was when they would get to hear more about further installments....

July 3, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Heather Lewis

Forspoken Update Suggests Game Will Release This Year After All

Amidst various rumors and speculation that Square Enix’s forthcomingForspokenmay see another delay, it appears that the game could be on track to release this year after all. Europe’s PEGI rating board has stampedForspokenwith an “18” rating, indicating that the game may be in its closing stages of development. First revealed in 2020,Forspokenwas initially slated to release in early 2022 before a delay pushed the title back to October 2022. Recently, a handful of uncorroborated rumors suggested that Square Enix would insteadreleaseFinal Fantasy 16this year and further delayForspokeninto next year as the former is reportedly finishing development....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Nathaniel Henry

Fortnite Pulls Hi-Rez Textures Option, Here's Why

Epic Games is disabling a newFortnitefeature after it began to cause issues with the game’s graphics. The feature, which was included in the game’s v14.10 patch, gave players a new “hi-rez textures” option in the game’s settings that was intended to improveFortnite’s graphics. The new option confused some fans because, while it could be turned on for all platforms, it only affected textures on PlayStation 4 and Android devices. The confusion prompted theFortniteStatus Twitter account to clarify that the option only worked for fans playing the game on the PS4 or on Android....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Andrew Doyle

Games To Play If You Love Valorant

Summary It’s been incredible to witness how much the free-to-play multiplayer scene has exploded with online games. Every company is trying to get a piece of this craze andwhile many titles can bleed togetherand seem derivative of each other, it’s also pushed some developers to challenge the genre and come up with something fun and different.Valorantmade a strong impression on audiences during its beta phase, but it’s recently put out its full release and allowed players to see what it’s all about....

July 3, 2025 · 7 min · 1388 words · Joshua Brown

Genshin Impact: Mysterious Core Locations & How To Use Them

Quick Links Explorations inGenshin Impactwould be way too straightforward if everything had a quest marker, so some quests that leave players blind aren’t so bad at times. While walking around the land of Fontaine, Travelers may come across a man buried in the sands (with a roasted chicken in front of him, for some reason). Helping the man, Henri, will lead to a quest being unlocked. Later in the quest, Henri will ask players tofind Mysterious Core locationsso that he can complete a commission given by his “boss” inGenshin Impact....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Jacob Hines